the new world bank president

From Think Progress:

President Bush will today name Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the war in Iraq, as president of the World Bank.

Wolfowitz is a “highly controversial” choice for the position, the Financial Times notes, in no small part due to his flagrant misjudgments and extreme positions over the last several years. Wolfowitz has been criticized for pressuring intelligence agencies to produce false links between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, attackingGen. Shinseki’s troop estimates as “wildly off the mark,” holding up funds for Iraq reconstruction, and reportedly approving the harsh interrogation methods that led to abuse and torture in U.S. prisons.

Current bank President James Wolfensohn, appointed twice by President Clinton, was known for “bully[ing] the bank’s staff and board into changing the bank’s focus toward a greater emphasis on alleviating poverty“; last month, the Washington Post described Wolfensohn as “eager to stay on well past June, when his term expires, but increasingly resigned to the prospect that the Bush team would prefer to replace him with someone else.”
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Also :
One of the primary objectives of the World Bank is to combat global poverty.

Outgoing World Bank president James Wolfensohn understood the link between global poverty and global security. Paul Wolfowitz, however, remains blind to the impact poverty has on dangers like terrorism and civil unrest.

“If we want stability on our planet, we must fight to end poverty. Since the time of the Bretton Woods Conference, through the Pearson Commission, the Brandt Commission, and the Brundtland Commission, through to statements of our leaders at the 2000 Millennium Assembly - and today - all confirm that the eradication of poverty is central to stability and peace.” – Outgoing World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn, 10/3/04

VERSUS

“These people are not fighting because they’re poor. They’re poor because they fight all the time. ” – President Bush’s nominee for World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, Congressional Testimony, 6/6/96

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I honestly think i would pass out if bush actually nominated someone for a position who wasn't a direct polar opposite of the person that should be appointed.
And the repugs rejoice, not because they think the nominees are qualified, but just because it pisses off all of us who think logically. They are thrilled that bush will be destroying the Artic Wildlife Refuge, too, just because we didn't want him to!